333 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel.

Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

Life has no friend ...

I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.

Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees,-- Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned...